Oh Lord, Peacemaker Has New Opening Credits For Season 2 — Grade The Updated Dance Number

The following "spoils" the new opening credits for Peacemaker Season 2, which is now streaming Episode 1 on HBO Max.

HBO Max's Peacemaker on Thursday evening unveiled its opening credits sequence for Season 2, featuring a brand-new brain worm of a tune, new and returning faces, and some familiarly peculiar dance moves.

Due to multiple storyline-dictated "exits" in Season 1, the DC antihero series needed to open its Season 2 episodes with an updated dance number. "Also, we have a lot of new cast members" — including Tim Meadows, Sol Rodriguez and Michael Rooker — series creator and DC Studios co-CEO Gunn explained in May, "so I knew that I needed to do a new dance."

As for retaining Wig Wam's "Do Ya Wanna Taste It" as the opening needle drop, "I really went back and forth an awful lot," Gunn said. "And at the end of the day, I decided that we use a new song that's a little bit more about what the season's about."

"I just wanted to do a good job with the [new] dance sequence," Gunn added. "I don't know if [it] is going to one-up the first, because no one expected it... and you just can't replicate that."

Here is how Season 2's opening credits differ from Season 1. Rewatch 'em and read on...

Barging into each episode with the first yelps of Wig Wam's "Do Ya Wanna Taste It," Season 1's 80-second song-and-dance number — choreographed by Charissa-Lee Barton, directed by Gunn and filmed over one day in a high school auditorium — started off with Cena's chrome-domed antihero, Freddie Stroma's Vigilante and and Danielle Brooks' Adebayo stomping through spots of light. A few beats later, Jennifer Holland's Harcourt and and Chukwudi Iwuji's Murn marched in from the wings, joined by Steve Agee's Economos and then Elizabeth Ludlow's Keeya.

Midway through, Peacemaker fired his gun at the screen and we cut to Robert Patrick's stone-faced Auggie thrusting his crotch toward the camera, after which Annie Chang's Detective Song, Christopher Heyerdahl's Captain Locke and Lochlyn Munro's Detective Fitzgibbon got pulled into the dance party. Rizwan Manji's Jamil the Janitor, mop in hand, then crossed the floor past Mel Tuck's Old Man, and as the sequence built to a close, Cena hoisted Nhut Le's Judomaster onto his shoulders while Eagly struggled to hit his mark and fan his wings wide.

Peacemaker's Season 2 opening credits, clocking in at a beefier 105 seconds, are set to "Oh Lord" by Foxy Shazam — aka "my favorite band in the world, that is objectively the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world," Gunn declared at San Diego Comic-Con last month.

The set is more vast, with a dynamic, illuminated grid serving as a backdrop. Cena's Peacemaker again starts off in the spotlight, then is joined by Agee's Economos/Brooks' Adebayo and Holland's Harcourt/Stroma's Vigilante. We then get Judomaster accompanied by several new characters — Rooker's eagle hunter Red St. Wild, Rodriguez's ARGUS agent Sasha Bordeaux, Meadows' ARGUS agent Langston Fleury and Frank Grillo's ARGUS boss Rick Flag Sr.

Taylor St. Clair as Adrian's mom pulls hip-thrusting duty this time around, followed by appearances by Chris' alien neighbor from the Quantum Unfolding Chamber and a surer-footed Eagly.

The POV at that point switches to a full-cast arrangement, though Cena is now in regular clothes (perhaps belonging to the other Chris Smith?); you can also spot ARGUS agents Vega (Reinaldo Faberlle), Kling (Brandon Stanley) and Angler (Anissa Matlock). We then get a three-shot of White Dragon with the alternate universe's Harcourt and David Denman's Keith Smith in his Captain Triumph fit. When we return to the full-cast set-up, but with Stroma is out of costume and in Adrian Chase mode. The sequence ends with the cast piling on top of one another.

What's your take on Season 2's "Oh Lord" dance number? And how does it compare to Season 1's utterly unskippable opening credits?